A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

Sources have said FEMA wasn’t authorized to launch search and rescue teams until 72 hours after flooding began.

The DHS head has been accused of being unprepared to handle the natural disaster, which killed 129 people and left 160 ...

Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the ...

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem denied that Texas flood victims could not contact FEMA's call centers in the days following the disaster.

The Guadalupe River flood was predictable and preventable. Geography, climate change, population growth and federal cuts all ...

Trump’s FEMA council, led by Kristi Noem, met amid U.S. floods to discuss major changes, including possibly shifting disaster ...

An internal FEMA review of its flawed response to Hurricane Katrina identifies many of the same failures the agency said it would fix a year ago, documents show. IE 11 is not supported.

But Trump is right about this one. The system of federal disaster relief does need reform. FEMA's failures are well-documented, and they have come at a steep cost to taxpayers.

Make no mistake: FEMA’s disaster response failures and the ideology of its leaders are unlikely to be separate matters, and Congress has an obligation to investigate any link between them.

The Nov. 19 hearing in which Criswell will answer for her alleged failure of leadership is titled In the Eye of the Storm: Oversight of FEMA’s Disaster Readiness and Response.

"And so, when you look at 9/11, nobody questioned FEMA's response, from deployment of the Urban Search and Rescue Teams to the recovery. By and large, FEMA did its job.